Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf

Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf (1957-) was the head of the Transitional Military Council of Sudan from 11 to 12 April 2019, succeeding Omar al-Bashir and preceding Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan.

Biography
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf was born in 1957, and he served as Head of Military Intelligence and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Sudanese military. During the Darfur War, he served as a liaison with the Janjaweed paramilitaries, and he also had close ties with Iran; for both of these reasons, he was sanctioned by the US government. On 23 August 2015, he became Defense Minister of Sudan under President Omar al-Bashir, and he became his First Vice President on 23 February 2019. On 11 April 2019, he announced the introduction of military rule in the country following a military coup against al-Bashir, but he stepped down a day later due to continued protests caused by his decision not to extradite al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court.